Jamestown Field Trip

One of the things that happens when your child has Type I diabetes is that you automatically get a spot as a chaperone on all the field trips.  On a day long field trip across the state, a parent's attendance becomes mandatory.  In April, the 4th grade went to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center to see what they had been learning about this year as they studied Virginia history.  It was a beautiful day.  How lucky we are that we actually got to visit the places that children across America study about.  I'd been to the original site of Jamestown and to the actual Yorktown battlefield, but never to either of these two places which are geared to education and had a lot of cool stuff to see and do.  

Bell tower at Jamestown Settlement.

Darcie and some classmates

At the Indian Village learning about the Powhatans.  

Darcie on a replica ship at Jamestown.  

Class picture at the replica ship.  

Class in a dugout at Jamestown Settlement.

Garden and rooster at Yorktown Victory Center.  

This lizard on the wall caused quite the excitement for the 4th graders.  

With a guide at Yorktown Victory Center learning about daily life in Revolutionary America.   

Samantha and Darcie - the BFFs at the flagpoles of the 13 original states.